‘$50bn is pocket change’: opioid makers on trial in Ohio after talks collapse
- Cleveland jury to hear claims by thousands of US communities
- Opioid epidemic has claimed more than 400,000 lives
The drug industry will go on trial in federal court on Monday, as a jury begins to hear claims by thousands of American communities that pharmaceutical firms collaborated in a conspiracy that drove the US opioid epidemic.
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